From 455aaa1537c1bc0f9bc7e2ffa6802c8e4872738a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:21:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] stddef: Introduce DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper There are many places where kernel code wants to have several different typed trailing flexible arrays. This would normally be done with multiple flexible arrays in a union, but since GCC and Clang don't (on the surface) allow this, there have been many open-coded workarounds, usually involving neighboring 0-element arrays at the end of a structure. For example, instead of something like this: struct thing { ... union { struct type1 foo[]; struct type2 bar[]; }; }; code works around the compiler with: struct thing { ... struct type1 foo[0]; struct type2 bar[]; }; Another case is when a flexible array is wanted as the single member within a struct (which itself is usually in a union). For example, this would be worked around as: union many { ... struct { struct type3 baz[0]; }; }; These kinds of work-arounds cause problems with size checks against such zero-element arrays (for example when building with -Warray-bounds and -Wzero-length-bounds, and with the coming FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements), so they must all be converted to "real" flexible arrays, avoiding warnings like this: fs/hpfs/anode.c: In function 'hpfs_add_sector_to_btree': fs/hpfs/anode.c:209:27: warning: array subscript 0 is outside the bounds of an interior zero-length array 'struct bplus_internal_node[0]' [-Wzero-length-bounds] 209 | anode->btree.u.internal[0].down = cpu_to_le32(a); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ In file included from fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h:26, from fs/hpfs/anode.c:10: fs/hpfs/hpfs.h:412:32: note: while referencing 'internal' 412 | struct bplus_internal_node internal[0]; /* (internal) 2-word entries giving | ^~~~~~~~ drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c: In function 'es58x_fd_tx_can_msg': drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c:360:35: warning: array subscript 65535 is outside the bounds of an interior zero-length array 'u8[0]' {aka 'unsigned char[]'} [-Wzero-length-bounds] 360 | tx_can_msg = (typeof(tx_can_msg))&es58x_fd_urb_cmd->raw_msg[msg_len]; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.h:22, from drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c:17: drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.h:231:6: note: while referencing 'raw_msg' 231 | u8 raw_msg[0]; | ^~~~~~~ However, it _is_ entirely possible to have one or more flexible arrays in a struct or union: it just has to be in another struct. And since it cannot be alone in a struct, such a struct must have at least 1 other named member -- but that member can be zero sized. Wrap all this nonsense into the new DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() in support of having flexible arrays in unions (or alone in a struct). As with struct_group(), since this is needed in UAPI headers as well, implement the core there, with a non-UAPI wrapper. Additionally update kernel-doc to understand its existence. https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/137 Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter --- include/linux/compiler.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index e40d8ae..cd97693 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -111,4 +111,20 @@ static inline unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w) return (res + (res >> 4)) & 0x0F; } +/** + * DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() - Declare a flexible array usable in a union + * + * @TYPE: The type of each flexible array element + * @NAME: The name of the flexible array member + * + * In order to have a flexible array member in a union or alone in a + * struct, it needs to be wrapped in an anonymous struct with at least 1 + * named member, but that member can be empty. + */ +#define DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(TYPE, NAME) \ + struct { \ + struct { } __empty_ ## NAME; \ + TYPE NAME[]; \ + } + #endif /* __SHARED_COMPILER_H */ -- 2.31.1